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Oh yes.

Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

Originally, I wanted to make this episode about all the weird deaths and explosions and the helicopter crashes and all that, whatnot, about Ukrainian officials.

But, well, when I was digging that one up, and understanding who also listens to my show,

I understood that I'll wait a bit, a week or so maybe.

You know, there's some stuff that I know that is a bit time sensitive and, well, I have some

journalist integrity and I don't want to hurt my Ukrainian allies here.

But there's plenty of other stuff to talk about.

First of all, well, Aristovic said some interesting and harmful things in one of his reports,

and then, well, he designed from his position, which I still don't know exactly what was his position.

He was an advisor to President Zelensky, I suppose, but that was all a bit weird.

And it's also super weird that he's being super defended by a lot of Russian liberal opposition

people, even though, you know, he's not the super say and saint that everyone portrays him as.

But interestingly enough, is that I wanted to know the Ukrainian opinion on this,

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